Hermana Hansen in Houston TX

FELIZ AÑO NUEVO 🎉🎉

Happy New year!! I hope 2018 is filled with miracles, happiness, and goals!!😊💛

Let's start off this new year with a funny, awkward, missionary story. So Saturday afternoon, we grabbed Subway for dinner because we were so booked all night we had about 30 minutes to eat something for dinner, and while we were eating, one of the guys who js always around our apartment complex came into Subway. He saw Hermana Espinoza praying over our food, and came and told us that he was so impressed with her. Well then hna Espinoza had to go to the bathroom, so I was obviously outside the door waiting. The same man (keep in mind he's about 45 and homeless) came up to me and starting going on about Hermana Espinoza's dimple, and what a catch she is. He probs went on for a good 5 minutes, and asked if we were sisters and if she was taken .... needless to say it was the longest conversation I've had about my companion without her actually being there. Lol I have gotten to be that really awkward missionary!!

We are working with this beautiful family, la familia Peña. It's a mom and her 2 kids. They are the BEST. We taught 2 awesome lessons with them this week, and we even started to teach the mom's boyfriend! As we finished teaching one night, Jacob (the little boy) just told us "I want to get baptized hermanas!!" And we just hugged him right then and there and said we would do everything possible to make it happen. He's such a cutie. (Sorry hna Espinoza he's mine)

We ate a huge Mexican hamburger this week! Sorry dad, but your hamburgers are babies compared to what we ate! It was huge and it even had queso brought from Monterrey! We might have a heart attack because of it though lol. We also ate pancakes as huge as our heads!! It was eventful lol

So we found a cute young couple who are less active, and it was a miracle finding them. We've now been teaching them for about 3 weeks, and on Saturday we visited them and they told us that they want to be able to come back to church. The wife (a recent convert) is pregnant and she wants the baby to be born in the church. They also want to be sealed in the temple before the baby is born in May!! They are the coolest and we are living working with them!!

Man, I cannot believe it's 2018!! The Lord has taught me so much the past year about His timing, the Atonement, and the importance of daily scripture study. I love my Savior, and the fact that He makes it all possible. I am so happy for this year to come, and for the chance we have to set new goals and be able to reach them with God's help. I am so happy to be here working in THE mission with my cutie como Hna Espinoza. 💕💕

xoxox

Hermana Hansen